Apathy

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// | // .-=""=-. | unmitigated v\ -|--, /v---|---|- |\ // .'\__/ \_\ | irrelevant / \\ || / // \ || || | \ // /__/ \__/ \__.oo | anti-news /___\\ ||_/ //___\ || ||__| V/ ._/___\__/__\__(____/ | episodic / \\|| // \|| || | // /__|/ \|__\ ` | orchard / V' // ' ' // ______________________|_____________________//________________// //////////////////// what? / mp3 / old / email / feed / links // ________________________________________// ////////////////////////////////////////// __________________________________________________________ | | 02/18/2000 | The red of a lion's teeth, the book blurs into one | |__________________________________________________________| the weekend | | strikes | Cats Reek Havoc on Brodhead, subtitled Residents Are | with deadly | Laying Deadly Traps | accuracy | | | Don't worry - it's not really news. Just attempting | | to be a frog today. | funny | | quotes rule | "Those dog-gone cats," Searls says. "They're out | | again. They're yowling, they're getting into my | | garbage, they're ruining my plants." | | | | Please to be seeing the Grammar Doctor, Wisconsin TV | | news writers. | | | | | | | lifelike | Another Craw interpretation follows. | | | |__________________________________________________________| Over the net before it got erased I read this mash note to life's undying lash We invent a more glorious accident We will bend time with the speed of our weapons We will prevent the meaning of the word civilian No time for reflection | | No means of deterrence | '--. No need for holding camps | | We will simply make them disappear '--. | | | Come join the | |evacuation | | March from | | | | city to suburb | | | | In the name .---' '---. '------------ of security---. | ( In the name | life like | .------------ of speed -----' | | | Every thing '---. .---' | | deregulated | | | | disintegrated '_____' | We end up defeated U without there ever having been a war. __________________________________________________________ | | 02/18/2000 | ASCII is gimmicky but what am I? | |__________________________________________________________| | | self | | magnetism | Picture of me rocking out with glee jumping on a | | hotel bed. [courtesy of my sis] If you're afraid | | to click (as you should be), just know that I am | | still faceless. All this proves is that I'm not | | visibly robotic. | | | | | take your | | time | Yogi Tea, proud supporters of Peace Cereal (tm) | | ["Heal Our Planet And Ourselves"] offer up Computer | | De-Stress Tea - Now with Eyebright and Kelp. | | | | It's not just a tea, it's a Dietary Supplement based | | on an Ancient Healing Formula! [Why am I suddenly | | Zippy ?] | | | | | ptypes | | | Apart From... Being Schizoid is a really grand read | | for us freaks. Just kidding of course. About the | | freaks. | | | | "In fact, schizoids often have the impression that | | if the outside world was let into their mental life, | | they'd be considered a complete nutbar." | | | | Hooray! | | | | Among the famous folks who were most likely | | schizoid, three of my all-time favorite fiction | | writers. Scary how that works, eh? | rather | | apropos | For you adult people, sex is in the mind. There. | | That's my yearly sex link... glad I have that out of | | the way. | | | | As I have mentioned before, take these things with a | | block of salt. | | | | | excuses | | excuses | No trio material today, but here are some mp3s I've | | been listening to and some babbling about them from | | the vaults. | | | | | thanks to | | ac | Sigur Rós have an unreal tint on rock. Audio is | | available in Real and an MP3. | | | | | ripped from | | usounds | Essex Green jumpy pop song samples. Quite | | impressive. | | | | | pop rock | | mastery | MK Ultra - Red Cross.mp3 | | "I've joined, joined the Red Cross..." I want to | | play that part right after the chorus with the | | windmilling guitar. | | | | [The mkultra.com server appears to be down as I | | write this. Try later.] | | | | | elephant | | sixed | I don't like being stupid. For the longest time, I | | had confused Elf Power with Cat Power, which was not | | something I liked last time I heard it. Sorry Cat | | Power fans. Don't get it. | | | | Thankfully, following some Neutral Milk Hotel links | | took me to their very happy page. Now I know better | | and am jamming the happy pop tunes. You can hear | | snippets on their site. Noisy horn-augmented pop | | songs trading places with folky, harmonic guitar | | pieces. Dance in your chair; you can't see my head, | | but you can be certain it is bopping to and fro. | | | | | blah ditty | | blah ditto | Problems with the home DSL, so the actual "features" | | of this page were dead for much of yesterday. YES | | | | Oh, I should clarify about the disclaimer junk. The | | "warning shot" that was fired at me was just a loud | | bark with no bite. I will make it my policy, still, | | to promptly remove songs as per requests and attempt | | to not add anything relating to them in the future. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/17/2000 | Zap! The sixth wall is broken. | |__________________________________________________________| henryku is | | a bad word | Henry Rollins Haikus | | | | Mr. Rollins? Hi. | | Boy, I sure am scared of you! | | Nothing personal. | | | | | arto is the | | man with a | Motion - Arto Lindsay feature | plan or | | something | Reading Motion's review of Prize I suddenly realized | | that the mentioned funky bassist Melvin Gibbs played | | for Henry Rollins' old band. Bizarre in the same | | way that Arto's latest album is completely normal | | and absolutely insane simultaneously. | | | | Perfect Sound Forever - Arto Lindsay interview from | | 1997 | | | | What records do the interviewees listen to? | | | | | self | | sufficient | Wiseacre, professional UK music snubber. | | | | | silly | | shockwave | New location. New Radiskull episode. Not as | | spontaneously funny as the others, but any cartoon | | parody of rap-metal gets my useless approval. | | | | | perl | | oneliners | Handy toolbox to steal Perl quickies from. | another | | note from | Perl debugger. Learn it. | the future | | | | days in the | | wake of | More mp3 action. Don't expect I will keep up this | static | picking 8 songs a day thing. Plenty more tri-legged | | bands, so we shall see. | | | | The Neutrino "Sure Are Shiny" song was not supposed | | to be all white noise. Fixed. A most excellent | | track, sorry I busted it. | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/16/2000 | Just a second for the strangulation | |__________________________________________________________| | | ega is for | | needles | The Embroiderers' Guild of America | | I have an unqualified urge to learn how to do this. | | | | | she could | | beat you up | Go sis go! | | | | | punk rock | | show | Better make your window big for rocking new MxPx | | page with Flashing Buffaloes and lots of Real Audio. | | | | | acoustic on | | trio | This is a ~~weak~~ test | | | | Locals Cup388 are playing some shows in the midwest. | | | | This is here to remind me to go. | | | | | keyboard | | elitism | 42H1292: The only way to type | | I have the Lexmark-produced 71G4644. [same thing] | | | | | gek | | | Doctor Fun 02-10: Donald Knuth's Big Dummies Guide | | to Visual Basic | | | | My fave since the return has to be 11-08 last year. | | Mature people can skip the butt humor. | 333 | | | l33t.com - "Everyone who is l33t is working on their | | MCSE." | irc via /. | | | President Clinton gets netsplit hax0red | ph34r mah | | A5C1I | Love those kids. Moo.nothing brings us great | sKiLLz | tidings of hax0ring, that underground act of | | virtuoso character suicide * | | | | * Warning: May contain parody. Pregnant women and | | patients susceptible to epileptic seizure should not | | 404 on this site. | | | | | browse0tron | | | ASCII fonts - thanks be to defiant Pete | | | | | on laws | | | There is now a disclaimer at the bottom of the page. | | I am scared. See me run from The Man. I'm going to | | get a domain. I'm going to use it. It will be like | | a gigantic picture of me, yelling "WHEEE!!!" and | | grinning as if I were a bear wearing a colorful | | little party hat. | | | | Someday. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/15/2000 | "It's like a scalp massage... from Lucifer." - sg | |__________________________________________________________| overheard | | in the | "You know, Stevie Wonder signed to Motown at the age | imaginary | of 10 and recorded his first album when he was 12." | museum | | | "I bet that's where they got the idea for 'Doogie | | Howser'!" | | | | | on notepad | | paper | Just call me stick man. | | | | | oh my pun | | | Has Cam seen this? [assume so] | | | | | part sense | | thanks to | The master of deadpan, or just on strike against | urantia | exclamation points... Judith dropped me this. | | We Are Not Alone - Angels and Other Aliens | | Includes Build a Bot. | | | | | everyone | | likes | The only book on my computer reference shelf that's | monkeys | not at least partly obsolete: vi Editor Pocket | | Reference | | | | The animal on the cover is a tarsier, the tiniest | | species of monkey. Aww. Clinging to the trees at | | night. | | | | Tarsius syrichta (Philippine Tarsier) zoology page. | | | | "This species is largely solitary; however, they | | occasionally associate in small groups of generally | | no more than four animals." | | | | Bad news: It's endangered. | cubicle | | rage | "It has been reported that they are so traumatized | exhibited | by captivity that they beat their heads against | in nature | their cages, eventually committing suicide." | | | | This program called Tarsier is very handy. It's for | | Windows users who want to enable and disable their | | screensaver. Best combined with the Blue Screen of | | Death screensaver for that authentic on-command fake | | crash. Very convincing! | | | | | two | | submissions | About the Urantia links yesterday (below), the Modem | posted in | Junkie kindly submits The Invisible Pink Unicorn | one day?!? | Page which is dead on and giggle-producing. | | | | | mp3 time | | | New songs are now available. No comments unless | | someone requests them. Yell if you spot trouble. | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/14/2000 | Have you got your Thought Adjuster enabled? | |__________________________________________________________| | | | Urantia 57:8.5 | | Trust me on this one, keep reading past the first | | few paragraphs. I had no idea The Urantia Book was | | available online in a reference edition. | enjoy the | | contrasts | What is it, exactly? | | | | "The Urantia Book is an anthology of 196 "papers" | | indited between 1928 and 1935 by superhuman | | personalities whose names are given with their | | respective papers in the book. The humans into whose | | hands the papers were delivered are now deceased. | | The means by which the papers were materialized was | | unique and is not clearly understood." | at least it | | is public | In other words, a modern-day prophetic work of vast | domain | scale that is somewhat intermingled with ideas from | | many world religions. I still haven't decided if | | the Urantia Foundation intends this as one huge hoax | | or an honest stab at memetics. | | | | Quality circular logic in their Question of Origin. | | | | | analyzing a | | modern | Now for some Urantia-centric exploration: | legend of | | creation | Religious Tolerance has a nice summary. | and faith | | | The U of Virginia's Religious Movements page has a | | more in-depth Urantia summary which seems to be | | saying that the book came from transcriptions of | | some "contact personality" during sleep. | | | | Of course, if you read this page very often you know | | I'm well on my way to becoming a larval psycho- | | skeptic. For that side of things, look no further | | than The Skeptic Dictionary's Urantia section. Mr. | | Carroll seems to be drawing a line from Urantia to | | Adventist doctrines. | | | | Martin Gardner's Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery is | | supposed to be the best in-depth research of the | | origins and such. Hey, he's the mathematician who | | wrote about soma cubes in SciAm, as well as hexa | | hexa flexagons -- oh, never mind. | | | | Cultic Twilight reviews his analysis with a killer | | last line, "...a massive sledgehammer is being | | brought to bear on a few minor nuts." | | | | | mission | | annoy | And the remains, in case anyone finds this page by | | the Urantia query or is geniunely interested in | | studying it. | | | | Ubook.org | | "Urantia Book Reader Services and Activities", | | complete with a Yahooish index | | | | Urantia Book Internet School | | Correspondence classes via the net | | | | | the | | tradition | This Katie gal has neat integrated margin notes in a | of my | log format even though she denies that it's a | unknowing | weblog. | ripoffs | | continues | 2-5 entry of her writing resonates | | | | Plus she likes the Scribble game. Rock! See, when | | I was a kid we didn't have the luxury of paper so we | | used sticks to scratch in the dirt. Actually, we | | had paper, but dirt is so much easier to erase with | | the rain. | | | | Where was I? Oh yes, drawing a scribble! | | | | | from bump | | | Salon: interview with Orson Scott Card | | | | If you have read anything by Card, read this | | interview. | lost sense | | of self | Ender's Game will always be the fiction that most | | shaped my childhood. It doesn't matter if the | | author has blinders on... it almost feels like the | | scope of that book started to escape his grasp. | | There's no way he can reconcile those views with his | | little worldview. As Sir Robert notes, very sad to | | find the author of such theoretically beautiful | | books has tunnel vision. | rather | | incendiary | Knowing he was a devout Mormon, why would Salon | interview | choose a lesbian as an interviewer? I have no | tactics | problem with the author, although some of the | | language could have been toned down; it's just that | | they should have guessed this would happen. | | Wondering if they did guess that. | | | | Another little disappointment came when OSC says | | "...I have no respect whatsoever for Jung or any of | | his works..." Now, I have that same irrational | | dislike for Freud and Jung (and most likely for the | | same internal reasons). I'm not going to discount | | them out of hand. | | | | | mp3 time! | | | Molasses is another Montreal soundscape band | | associated with GYBE by way of mutual members. | stapling | | note to | There's an MP3 on that Molasses page set up by | forehead | Alien8 Recordings, suggest you check that puppy out. | | One of those convincing songs... I will be tracking | | this down. Ambient and minimal at the beginning, | | moving along over found sound, strumming slowly. | | Humming leads to bluesy hymn-ish vocals, which give | | way to miniature swells of melodic feedback and | | dissonance. | | | | Speaking of GYBE, anyone know what happened to the | | supposed February split with Shalabi effect on | | Alien8? All word has disappeared. | | | | * Dan continues bashing head against wall and | | muttering to self in Latin | | | | | remember er | | er this | Oh yeh. This week will be Major MP3 Week or | | something as soon as I get things in order... I plan | | to cover as many aspects of the trio in rock music | | as possible. If you think you know a band I | | wouldn't, or a local three-person thing, hook me up | | if you would be so kind. | on deck | | | Listening to Arto Lindsay's latest album, Prize. | | Brazilian styled, I can almost smell Tortoise | | heading this direction if they suddenly started | | singing in alternating English and Portuguese. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ in with the | | old, out | This weekend's useless experiment will help when I | with the | get stuck in a rut. It will jump me into an | new | different, archived rut! | | | | Last week was weak. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | eh? | This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. I wander | | around the web, and point out what are most likely | | completely useless things for you to visit. It's | | where I have been, what I learned there, and what I | | plan to figure out in the future. All in the palm | | of your hand. | | | the daily | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There are | surfing | many weblogs. You can probably find one that suits | tools | your tastes pretty closely in the morass below, but | | if not, use the pitas system to track yourself. | | | contact | Dan Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com / ICQ 363803 | |__________________________________________________________| /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// old archives: dots are interstitial weekly posts useless sky: staring at old links . legos and robots: designing electrical companions and other nonsense . grid puzzles: waste time with boxes and their brethren . chip music: listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE . lewis carroll: charles dodgson wrote some happy tales . opinionation: how do you do, capitalism? how do you? ........ defunct rock: amf, grammatrain, jawbox, poor old lu, roadside .. ascii games: to quote salon, @ <- you are here . voicemail: automated telephone systems . bach and tone: the endlessly rising canon of links . eigenspace: eigen wha? ... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// possible subjects: feel free to suggest or help out falling pod: zoooooming through the earth's crust . occam's razor: computational reflection . bad art: clean up old gallery . demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscope . 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Arbitrary | | numerical scales are not real helpful, eh? | | | 9.3 | A Minor Forest - Cocktail Party.mp3 [6.3mb] | 2.7 | A Minor Forest - Discoier.mp3 [7.0mb] | 6.1 | Neutrino - Sure Are Shiny.mp3 [3.4mb] | 8.2 | Neutrino - Bring On The Super Desserts.mp3 [4.6mb] | 1.8 | 33.3 - Miles.mp3 [5.9mb] | 2.4 | 33.3 - Rancho Diablo.mp3 [7.8mb] | 5.2 | Silkworm - Empty Elevator Shaft.mp3 [3.5mb] | 5.6 | Silkworm - Waiting on a Train.mp3 [3.5mb] | 8.3 | Arcwelder - Captain Allen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 6.3 | Arcwelder - Finish My Song.mp3 [4.5mb] | 8.9 | MxPx - Sometimes You Have To Ask Yrself.mp3 [2.4mb] | 8.6 | MxPx - Let It Happen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 0.6 | Low - Lullaby.mp3 [7.8mb] | 1.3 | Low - Over the Ocean.mp3 [3.2mb] | 2.9 | Ativin - Riding and Roaming.mp3 [4.1mb] | 3.2 | Ativin - Cy.mp3 [5.6mb] | 5.8 | Hugh - Ruby Cruiser.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.1 | Hugh - Little A.mp3 [3.6mb] | 1.2 | Codeine - Cave-in.mp3 [3.3mb] | 2.2 | Codeine - Cigarette Machine.mp3 [4.4mb] | 6.3 | Jawbox - Consolation Prize.mp3 [3.5mb] | 8.8 | Jawbox - Tools and Chrome.mp3 [2.5mb] | 4.2 | Starflyer 59 - Wasting Your Whole Life.mp3 [4.9mb] | 3.5 | Starflyer 59 - All The Time.mp3 [2.8mb] | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ a musical | | diagramme | 2--. .--1 | | Pajo |.'.| McMahon | | 1-.' '.-2 | | .' .'. '. | | 2-.' .' . '. '.-1 | | Patton |--: .:!:. :--| Grubbs | | 1-'. '. .' .'-2 | | '. | | .' | | 2-'. .'-1 | | Zorn |'.'| Fahey | | 1--' '--2 | | | | David Grubbs - Potato Lettuce.mp3 [10.6mb] | day 1 | vs. | | John Fahey - Charles A. Lee.mp3 [4.3mb] | | | | John Fahey - Requiem for Molly (p3).mp3 [2.0mb] | day 2 | vs. | | John Zorn - Cartoon Music.mp3 [15.8mb] | | | | John Zorn - Saigon Pickup.mp3 [4.1mb] | day 3 | vs. | | Mr. Bungle - Ars Moriendi.mp3 [4.3mb] | | | | Mr. Bungle - The Holy Filament.mp3 [4.3mb] | day 4a | vs. | | Aerial M - Skrag Theme.mp3 [3.4mb] | | | | Papa M - I Am Not Lonely w/ Cricket.mp3 [7.9mb] | day 4b | vs. | | The For Carnation - Salo.mp3 [4.9mb] | | | | Squirrel Bait - Sun God.mp3 [2.8mb] | day 5 | vs. | | Bastro - I Come From a Long Line.mp3 [3.4mb] | | (of Shipbuilders) | |__________________________________________________________| ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////